🇧🇷🗳⚡️- The Brazilian Superior Electoral Court has issued a document demanding that the Regional Electoral Courts respect the decision to extend the voting time by 2 hours.

At least five Regional Electoral Courts have refused to apply the Supreme Court's extension of voting so far.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- Polls closed in Brazil. Allegedly.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- At 1.78% counted:

Flavio Bolsonaro: 48.5%
Lula: 51.5%

🇧🇷🗳 - Note: counting in the north-eastern regions seems way faster than the reported pace during the first round. It is unsure if all polling stations remain open in all regions at this time.

🇧🇷🗳 - For example, the left-leaning region of Paraiba has already reported 14% of its votes, while the right-leaning region of Sao Paulo has only reported 0.05% of its votes.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- At 4.68% counted:

Flavio Bolsonaro: 48.81%
Lula: 51.19%

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- At 7.28% counted:

Flavio Bolsonaro: 49.2%
Lula: 50.8%

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- At 9.98% counted:

Flavio Bolsonaro: 49.52%
Lula: 50.48%

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- Regions of Amazonas and Tocantins surprisingly flipped in favor of Bolsonaro, at 37.8% and 59.1% votes reported.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- At 12.90% counted:

Flavio Bolsonaro: 49.8%
Lula: 50.20%

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- BREAKING: At 13.65% counted, Flavio Bolsonaro takes the lead

Flavio Bolsonaro: 50.01%
Lula: 49.99%

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- At 16.38% counted:

Flavio Bolsonaro: 50.21%
Lula: 49.79%

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- At 20.05% counted:

Flavio Bolsonaro: 50.44%
Lula: 49.56%

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- At 26.54% counted:

Flavio Bolsonaro: 50.45%
Lula: 49.55%

🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡️- A Saudi Arabian delegation has landed in Tehran, Iran.

Rumors circulating indicate negotiations are taking place regarding the ongoing war in Yemen.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- At around 31% reporting, Bolsonaro is in the lead with 50.44% of the vote vs Lula at 49.56%

Bolsonaro is currently running 1.3 points better than his father did in the 2022 runoff.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- Poliwave is currently estimating that Lula has a 75% chance to win.

This number will fluctuate as more votes are counted.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- Brazilian news stations are now projecting that Lula has won re-election.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- Lula has now taken the lead at 48% reporting.

Lula leads by 41k votes.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- Lula maintains a strong lead with 66% of votes counted.

Lula is ahead by over 1.3 million votes.